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For over 30 years, from July 1978 to January 2009, KGO was the number-one station in the San Francisco Bay Area in the Arbitron ratings, a feat unmatched by any other station in the United States. [14] According to the 2010 Arbitron ratings, however, KGO had lost its lead to KCBS, with KOIT-FM as a close second, and KGO listing at third.
KGO-TV first signed on the air on May 5, 1949, as the San Francisco Bay Area's second-oldest television station, signing on five months after KPIX (channel 5) and the 50th in the United States. In fact, KPIX had a hand in getting KGO-TV on the air, as the CBS -affiliated station produced informational programming on how to receive and view ABC ...
Jarrett joined KGO-AM in San Francisco in 1986 as an aviation and space reporter. [2] [3] In 1991, Jarrett reported for KGO-AM and KGO-TV from Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War, also filing reports for the ABC Radio Network. [3] In late 1992, Jarrett flew to Somalia to join the mass of media greeting U.S. troops there. [4]
Listeners of San Francisco's KGO radio station woke up to a shock Monday. The iconic AM station's all-talk format was gone, supplanted by a sports gambling format and a branding change to "The ...
Bernard Vincent Ward (born April 5, 1951) is an American former radio personality whose career ran from 1985 to 2007. Formerly a radio talk show host with KGO 810 AM in San Francisco, California, [1] Ward, once billed by KGO as "The Lion of the Left" and "unabashedly liberal," [2] was the host of the daily news talk program, The Bernie Ward Show, and the three-hour program, GodTalk, on Sunday ...
Kevin "The Rat" Radich (born June 13, 1960) was the weekday afternoon sports reporter on KGO AM 810, in San Francisco. He joined KGO in early 2007, after a year of work as a weekend sports anchor for KCBS 740 AM radio. His wife, Kim Wonderley, works at KCBS as the morning traffic anchor. On June 21, 2015 Ben Fong-Torres' column Radio Waves in ...
He hosted radio programs in Atlanta, Miami, Cleveland, and Philadelphia before moving to KGO Radio of San Francisco in 1975. In 2004, the Disney/ABC-owned station signed Owens to an eight-year guaranteed contract to continue hosting The Ronn Owens Program. At its peak, the program had more than 500,000 regular listeners. [citation needed]
On December 1, 2011, John Rothmann along with other KGO talk show hosts and staff, were dismissed by KGO management due to an all-news format change by the radio station. [3] On March 11, 2019, as part of the reshuffling of the on-air lineup, Rothmann returned to KGO, this time hosting an evening program airing weeknights from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.